I have decided to read the TrueBlood books

I had read the first one by chance really... one of those random pick a book up at the pharmacy because I am out of books deal. (i get chronic migraines and the pharmacy knows me by name, so I also pick up lots of random reading from there.)

I like good vampire books. I like bad ones as well. All in good fun I say.

Sookie is a waitress who also happens to have the disability of telepathy, knows a little more than she would like about some people at times. Frankly not a gift I would like either. However, she meets a vampire (and since they outed themselves and drink synthetic blood this is not a astonishing fact, although the first one she had ever met). Bill the vampire. She finds out she can't read his mind and that is something she likes a great deal. Eventually they get together.

The writing style is in 1st person and simple, but this way we get a good feel for Sookie. I like the character, find her light and interesting. Being that she is a 'good girl' she finds herself in some very uncomfortable situations with some serious moral dilemmas by dating a vampire.

I just finished reading Living Dead in Dallas (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 2)


Now if you watch True Blood on TV (and it is an awesome show) then you will find some immediate differences in this book from the series, of which is no real surprise... one being an interesting character in the series dies in the beginning of the second book.  Although while reading this second one I caught glimpses of themes in some of the episodes in the past... but honestly you could enjoy the books and the series and not have any concerns over it.  Although if you are looking for the steamy sex scenes you see on the series to be in the book, not so much, the book keeps that part pretty tame (as in Sookie gets action from her boyfriend, but we do not get the step by step of it).  Because we have the voice of Sookie you might think the writing is simplisitc and sometimes a little on the fluff side, but that reflects the character being a nice girl, who knows everyone in the small town she is from and their lives, admits to not being worldly and at one time had a nice simple life.


I recommend reading them.  They are not perhaps the best series of vampire books I have come accross, but they are different in tone (not dark and sensual) and the plots are fasinating really.  I had not considered reading the entire series.  I had bought the first one and thought 'different' but not something I want to go buy the rest right away.  It was the TrueBlood series which I began watching that made me really want to get into the series and see if the interesting develops there take place in the books. (shapeshifters, werewolves... me oh my)